Erection date: 5/12/1990
Ravenscroft Park
This park was opened on 5th December 1990 by Dr David Bellamy for the people of Bethnal Green with thanks to the Monument Trust and the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association for assistance with grants.
Bethnal Green Neighbourhood
E2, Columbia Road, Ravenscroft Park
The plaque is on the low, angled, wall - angled upwards to catch the rain, hence its poor condition.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Ravenscroft Park
Environmental campaigner and botanist. Brought up in London. Built up a med...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Ravenscroft Park
British History has a map showing how in 1986 Tower Hamlets divided itself up...
A charity for the preservation of public parks and gardens in London. It faci...
{on the top, round plaque:} LCC Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828 - 1882, poet & painter, born here. {on the lower, oblong plaque:} Ta...
Not the most exciting plaque we've ever found, but the crest is pretty.
We thank Rosemary Jeffreys, again, for the Latin translation. After the fire the building was restored by the Treasury under Sir Christo...
2025: The Standard reported on this flat being for sale, saying that the 2-bedroom ground floor flat was Lawrence's first residence in Lo...
This gig probably came about because the band's bass player at the time, Glen Matlock, was studying at the art school. Also in 2016 The G...
Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least some of the Bloomsburies and Keyneses, 1911-15. Grant and K...
An attack by Royal Air Force 617 Squadron on German dams using bouncing bombs designed by Barnes Wallis. The operation was led by Guy Gibson. Subject of the 1955 film The Dambusters for which Eric ...
Conservative councillor. Mayor of Wandsworth in 1985. Chair of the Wandsworth Policy and Finance Committee 1994. Awarded an OBE in 2010 when he had "been a councillor for 40 years, and deputy leade...
Greater London Council Randolph Caldecott, 1846 - 1886, artist and book illustrator, lived here.
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